West Shore roundhouse looking southeast

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West Shore roundhouse looking southeast

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This is the West Shore roundhouse, the last bastion of steam in the Buffalo area. When this picture was taken, all freight and switching operations had been dieselized, and steam power was limited to TH&B trains, several passenger runs on the Michigan Central, and a few mail-and-express and secondary passenger runs on the Lines West. All of the foregoing added up to a mere pittance, of course, and the handwriting was on the wall even for these miserable remnants of the glorious days. Here was a flurry of activity, however, which, qualitatively if not quantitatively, was a reminder of what had once been a mighty arena, crowded with seething monsters of the rails. The locomotives are, from left to right: TH&B no. 502 (for no. 379), the 5436 and 5204 coupled (the latter for no. 137), the 6003 and 5445 coupled (for X-35), and the 6001 (for no. 137). The West Shore mains are in the foreground.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

8/1953

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engine terminal

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Bailey Ave., Buffalo, NY

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